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Oil on canvas, Kate Flournoy Edwards, 1911, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives. |
BARBOUR, Philip Pendleton, (brother of James Barbour and cousin of John Strode Barbour) ,
a Representative from Virginia; born at Frascati, near Gordonsville, Orange
County, Va., May 25, 1783; attended common and private schools; was graduated from the college of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and
commenced practice in Bardstown, Ky.; returned to Virginia in 1801 and practiced law in
Gordonsville, Orange County; member of the State house of delegates 1812-1814; elected as a
Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Dawson;
reelected as a Republican to the Fourteenth through the Seventeenth Congresses, reelected as a
Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and served from September 19, 1814, to March 3,
1825; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Seventeenth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1824; offered the professorship of law in the University of Virginia in 1825, but
declined; appointed a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning in
1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March
4, 1827, until his resignation on October 15, 1830; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twentieth
Congress); president of the Virginia constitutional convention in 1829; appointed by President
Jackson, June 1, 1830, judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
declining the chancellorship and the post of attorney general; refused nominations for judge of the
court of appeals, for Governor, and for United States Senator; appointed Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court and served from March 15, 1836, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
February 25, 1841; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
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